BILL NUMBER: SB 609	CHAPTERED  03/15/99

	CHAPTER   5
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MARCH 15, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   MARCH 15, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MARCH 11, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   MARCH 8, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Burton

                        FEBRUARY 23, 1999

   An act relating to state employees, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 609, Burton.  State employees:  memoranda of understanding.
   Existing law provides that if any provision of a memorandum of
understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized
employee organization representing state civil service employees
requires the expenditure of funds, those provisions of the memorandum
of understanding shall not become effective unless approved by the
Legislature in the annual Budget Act.
   This bill would approve provisions that require the expenditure of
funds of memoranda of understanding entered into between the state
employer and specified employee organizations, and would provide that
the provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the
expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of
the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  The bill would also declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  The provisions of the following memoranda of
understanding prepared pursuant to Section 3517.5 of the Government
Code and entered into by the state employer and the following
employee organizations, which requires the expenditure of funds, are
hereby approved for the purposes of Section 3517.6 of the Government
Code:
   (a) Unit 12, International Union of Operating Engineer Employees.

   (b) Unit 13, International Union of Operating Engineer Employees.

  SEC. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 3517.6 of the Government Code, the
provisions of any memorandum of understanding that require the
expenditure of funds shall become effective even if the provisions of
the memorandum of understanding are approved by the Legislature in
legislation other than the annual Budget Act.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the provisions of this act to be applicable as soon
as possible in the 1998-99 fiscal year, and so facilitate the orderly
administration of state government at the earliest possible time, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.
